Hook member for hook-and-eye fastener.



H. GERITS.

HOOK MEMBER OF HOOK AND EYE FASTENERS.

APPLICAUON FILED OCT. 23. 1917.

1,282,066. Patented Oct. 22 1918.

IN VE N TOR flelerz epilis A TTOPNEY ATgma non- HELEN Gnarrs', or rHILAnELPHrA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK MEMBER OF HOOK-AND-EYE FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HELEN Gnnrrs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook Members 01 *Hook -and-Eye Fasteners, of which -the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hook member of a'hookand eye fastener and it has particular relation to such hook member which is preferably made from a single piece of bent wire of a novel conformation, as will be h'reinafter more particularly set forth.

- The principal object of my invention is to provide an improved form of hook member of ahook and eye'fastener which will be simple in constructiomdurable and efficient in use, and which will be susceptible of being easily attached to the, garment with a minimum of stitching, but which will be maintained properly on the garment notwithstanding the more or less rough usage to which such devices are subjected when in use, and which on accou'nt of 'its peculiar conformation will resist deformation when undue stressesloccur in use.

Heretofore, it has been usual in such de-- vices to provide sewing loops at'the rear end of the shank thereof, and inthe most commonly used form of hook member it has beencustomary for the user to also stitch the forward end of the hook member fast to the 5 garment by a few stitches across the forward end ofthe shank beneath, the bill.

When these devices wereso fastened to the garment and the'fi'nook (member was detached from the eye m'ember with which it was used, usually bybeingpushe'd forward from the rear, the stitches which were at the front end of thejshank-portion would ride along the shank and either become foul Specification of Letters Patent. Applicationjfiled oetobeias, 1917. I Serial No. 198,042.

. onthe hump portion, or would be retained J near therear end of the shank by said hump portion. This disarrangement would not only mar the appearance but would also resultin the front endof the hook'member being more or less free, tending to the ultimate unfastening of the hook member from the stitching, orto the destruction thereof by the improper stresses to which the device.

would thus be subjected.

Various attempts have been made to overcome the difiiculty above mentioned, such as Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

the provision of sewing loops at the forward end of the hook member, and other more or less clumsy expedients Were tried which however were'not found satisfactory in use.

The-present invention contemplates a novel form of construction whereby the stitching at the forward end of the hook member will at all" times be maintained in the proper location with respect to the member, and which will also permit the fastening of the front end of the device to the garment with a minimum of stitching, and which will maintainrits proper shape even when subjected to considerable stress.

The nature and characteristic features of my invention willebe more readily understood froni the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in Which- I Figure 1 is a top or plan view, enlarged, of a hook member of a hook and eye fastener embodying the main features of my invention; I

Fig. Q'is a side elevation thereof; and

Fig. 3 is a view of a portion of a garment showing devices of my invention in operative position thereon.

. Referringto the drawings, in. the partiouv tion, 6, comprises two substantially parallel portions of the wire which are each bent around as at 11 fat the forward end of the hook member and there merged into the respective side portions 9 and 10 of the shank 5. One of these side portions 9 is first bent abruptly outward a short distancefrom the forward end to form an enlarged shoulder lat and is then continued toward the rear end and bent inward as at 16 ,to a point adjacent thespring tongue 7, and the wire is then bent outward, extending to and merging into a substantially circular int-urned sewing loop 12 at the rearof the hook memher. The other side portion 10 of the shank 5 is similarly bent outward a short distance from the forward end to form a shoulder 14 and is then continued toward the rear end and bent inward as at 17 to a point adjacent the spring tongue 7, and thence extends to a semicircular sewing loop 13, from which the centrally arranged spring tongue 7 extends forward beneath the bill portion 6. The spring tongue 7 is-preferably provided with a hump 8 which serves to nor mally maintain the hook member in engagement with the eye member in the well known manner in which such hump devices operate.

All of the portions of the shank5 are arranged in the same plane so as to present a smooth flat surface next to the garment to which the device is attached. It will be noted that the shoulders let in the shank 5 are formed a short distance from the front end of the hook member where the portion of the wire from the bill portion 6 bends around into the side portions 9 and 10 of the shank, as clearly shown in Figs. .1 and 3 of the drawings, and these shoulders 14 serve to maintainthe stitching at the front end of the hook member at all times in proper relative position. This arrangement also results in the provision of a wide base near the forward end of the shank for the support of the hook member on the garment at this point. A,

By bending the shank members inwardly as at 16 and 17 in proximity to the spring tongue 7,the hook member will be less likely to be distorted in use on account of the support which will be afforded by the seat formed by the spring tongue 7 when undue stress occurs, and to facilitate this action the spring tongue 7 may be slightly depressed beneath the plane of the shank 5 as shown in Fig. 2 of thedrawings, it being noted that the bend between the depressed portion of the spring tongue 7 and the hump portion 8 will constitute a recess in which the inturned portionslG and l7 of the shank will seat when such stress occurs in use.

To attach the device to the garment the sewing loops l2 and 13 at the rear end thereof are stitched to the garment as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and the forwardendof the hook member is also attached by a number of stitches 15 which extendacross the end of the shank under the bill and in front of the shoulders 1e, so that the hook will be securely fastened to the garment at each end of the shank, and the shoulders 14 will as hereinbefore set forth efl'ectively prevent the stitches 15 from slidingalong the shank 5 when the hook is being manipulated by the user.

It will thus be seen that there is provided a simple, durable, and efiicient form of hook member which may be attached to the garment with a minimum of stitching, but which, when attached, will be more permanently and securely held than heretofore neeaoee has been done, and this without the provision of complicated and cumbersome parts.

Having thus described the nature and characteristic features of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is shoulders and extending into more widely.

disposed side portions of the shank, said side port-ions thence extending 'rearwardly and having portions at the'rearbent around to form sewing loops at the rear end of the shank, all of the parts of the shank lying in substantially the sameplane, and a cen trally disposed spring tongue extending for-.

ward from one of the sewing loops having an ,intermedlate depressed portlon and a hump portion nearits forwardfendadapted to co-act withthe bill as a retaining means to restrain accidental disengagement from s the eye. I

2. A hook member ofa'hook and eye fastener formed of bent wire and comprising a bill for engaging the eye and a shank vfor attachment to the garment, said bill comprising parallelportions of the wire which extend substantially parallel ,to the plane of the shank and are bent around .at the forward end and merge into the shank the wire then extending rearwardly a short distance of substantiallythe same width, as the bill, then divergingto form shoulders and extending into more widely disposed side portions of the shank, said side portionsthence extending rearwar'dly and being bent inward intermediate the ends, and said side portions having portions at the rear bent aroundto form sewing loopsat the rear end of the shank, all of the parts of theshank lying in substantially the same plane,anda centrally disposed spring tongue extending forward from one ofthe sewing loops having an intermediate depressed portion and a hump portion near its forwardendadapted to 00-2101; with the bill as a retaining means to restrain accidental disengagement from the eye.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name. 7

HELEN GERITS.

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